Developing countries started opening
their power sectors to independent power producers (IPPs)
some ten years ago, and IPPs have now developed into a large
market. This...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18722Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Bousba,Reda ;
Albouy,Yves J.
Many governments have concluded joint
ventures with private investors that contain preemptive
rights contractually restricting the rights to transfer
ownership of a...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18723Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Frémond,Olivier ;
Nellis,John R.
Reform of the natural gas industry in
Ukraine started a year later than reform of the power
industry. Because gas reform had no blueprint, its direction
has remained...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18962Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Lovei,Laszlo
Restructuring Ukraine's coal
industry has been even more difficult and politicized than
reforming its electricity and gas industries. Coal reform
has divided Parliament...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18996Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Lovei,Laszlo
Most of Colombia's general cargo
trade has been handled by four public ports: Barranquilla,
Cartagena, and Santa Marta on the Atlantic coast and
Buenaventura on the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18924Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Gaviria,Juan
Although reform of Ukraine's
electricity sector is far from complete, the experience so
far shows that ingrained attitudes are harder to change than
written rules of...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18941Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Lovei,Laszlo
The management contract for water and
sanitation services in the Venezuelan state of Monagas,
awarded in early 1997 to a Spanish firm, is one of very few
signed and...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 26830Date: December 1, 1998Author:
Manuel Marino, John Stein, and Fransico Wulff
Once a government has decided to award a
concession by auction, it needs to decide what kind of
auction to use. For concessions the standard is a
first-price sealed...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18720Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann
Should a conceding authority auction off
or negotiate a contract for an exclusive private
infrastructure deal? Advocates of negotiation often argue
that a formal competition...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18719Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Klein, Michael
Infrastructure concession contracts set
out the performance obligations and rights of
concessionaires and the incentives and risks under which
they operate, including...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18718Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Klein, Michael
The longer a concession lasts, the less
effect the initial rounds of bidding will have on the terms
of the concession over its full life. Much more influential
will...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18721Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Klein, Michael
The privatization efforts of most
developing countries are inhibited by embryonic financial
markets, weak regulatory capacity, and a public sector that
accounts for...
Private investors are considering
several large-scale oil and gas production, pipeline, and
cross-border pipeline projects in developing countries,
including in West...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18717Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Sinclair,Scott
This note examines the corporate roots
of the financial crisis in East Asia. It summarizes the
findings of a study of corporate financial performance in
East Asian economies...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17815Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Pomerleano,Michael
To date most private sector water
projects have been financed on a limited recourse basis,
that is, with project cash flows and assets as the main
security for lenders....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18443Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Haarmeyer, David ;
Mody, Ashoka
Private participation in electricity
industries has grown substantially since 1990, with
electricity becoming one of the leading infrastructure
sectors in attracting...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18714Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina
The wave of infrastructure privatization
sweeping the world over the past decade or so has given rise
to a new category of professional - the specialist utility
regulator....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18713Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Gray, Philip
A project finance structure allows water
projects with attractive cash flows and risk profiles to
secure long-term private capital. But even in industrial
countries...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18442Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Haarmeyer, David ;
Mody, Ashoka
The PPI (Private Participation in
Infrastructure) Project Database covers private
participation in infrastructure in developing countries. The
database records details...
Government guarantees for private
infrastructure projects represent real liabilities, and
their costs can average as much as a third of the amount
guaranteed. The authors...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18440Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Mody,Ashoka ;
Lewis,Christopher M.
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